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8 minutes ago, Marka Ragnos said:

All the hyenas think they're coming out for our best players right now, too. It's so predictable and depressing, and I thank Emery and owners and all our previous managers who had the foresight to get some our players signed to long contracts. The arrogance in how these ridiculous stories are reported infuriates me, so I guess I do get baited by them  -- "Spurs want Luiz," "Poch has decided he wants Martinez," "Manchester United will be adding so and so to their plans," etc etc etc. Drives me batty, and if you know me, you know I don't need additional fuel for the fire in that department heheh.

Did you photoshop the ball into this or what?!

11 minutes ago, duke313 said:

The Stoke forum seems to think it wasn’t a loan as to not take up one of their loan slots. Probably agreeable to both parties as we wanted rid of him.

Surely someone else could've loaned him to avoid us taking a hit, maybe something else is at play though...

12 minutes ago, gwi1890 said:

How much did we get for him?

I imagine nothing...

Crystallising a £4.4m loss isn’t ideal for FFP, I wonder why we didn’t just loan him out again? 

Never argue with an idiot. You'll never convince the idiot that you're correct, and bystanders won't be able to tell who's who.

12 minutes ago, Jas10 said:

I still can’t believe that a comment was made here rating JWP higher than Dougie and calling him overrated…

Wasn't there a Brentford/Everton fan who posted here who seemed to have a vendetta against Dougie? 

16 minutes ago, zab6359 said:

Saw that really odd link considering how stacked we are at DM. We’re not paying €30m for a squad player.

Yeah I don’t believe the link but if true, we are aiming way higher than I thought.

Media seems to link us with everyone so I’m sure it’s just that.

58 minutes ago, lexicon said:

He's a long, long way from that level. 

*ignore my response, thought this was the Kellyman thread*

3 minutes ago, Hank Scorpio said:

Need a backup RB and GK. Don't think anything else is achievable or realistic.

We won't be buying a striker as good or better than Watkins with the budgets we have left.

Loan to buy is the route I think we will take for another attacker, Ferran Torres late in the window possibly 

4 hours ago, gwi1890 said:

I think this is on, 21 years old a Belgium international made his debut at 18 predominately a right and left sided winger but can play central has had his fair share of injures but I think that’s something we could manage and help him with he wouldn’t be a nailed on starter here and we could integrate him gradually manage his workload.  He’s a special talent.

Stop being so sensible, he’s either crippled or gonna win the ballon D’or 

The clause may also only apply to teams in the UCL for example…

4 hours ago, The_Steve said:

Tbh, it’s about £43m as of now, and I think £45-47m (€55-57m) will be the final fee. We will have to pay for quality and I'm sure Diaby absolutely ticks those boxes. Especially given the negotiations remain ongoing. 

Which Sky Sports will report as £65m no doubt 

5 minutes ago, Hank Scorpio said:

He knows nothing 

Neither do you but you still comment here!

10 minutes ago, The_Steve said:

Collymore once tweeted a photo of himself with Jack’s dad falsely suggesting Jack was staying. He always tweets nonsense then deletes it.

ahhh yes, i do remember that now!

1 minute ago, villa89 said:

Collymore doesn't have a clue or any inside knowledge, that's what I'll take from it.

I'm sure he's had some info in the past but wouldn't be able to tell you what it was now!

So apparently Stan Collymore has just tweeted and deleted pictures of both Felix and Lukaku (i managed to get a screenshot of the Lukaku posting).

Now replaced with a photo of 2 lions...

Collymore just tweeted and deleted this, take from it what you will…

14 minutes ago, Delphinho123 said:

What’s mad about this compilation is, if this were a player we were linked with in the German/Spanish league, we’d be at 50 pages already and spotting planes. 

I’d love it if Emery kept him round the squad this year. 

Maybe not the right thread for this but you'd think between what he, Archer and Ramsey showed last season, Championship teams would be begging to take our other youngsters on loan

On 16/07/2023 at 09:52, Kingman said:

 

One thing i took from that video is that his balance is incredible

2 hours ago, Woody1000 said:

Hopefully he gets his permanent move this summer. Decent player, unfortunately couldn’t stay fit for the first couple of years and now the level of our midfield is simply beyond his capabilities imo.

Maybe a loan with obligation to buy to help bank some FFP profit in the future

9 minutes ago, Steero113 said:

Would be delighted with Felix on loan.

Cant see it due to the financials though, but you never know. Especially if he gets to the end of August with very few options. 

Would we wait that long though? Let's say we are in for both Johnson and Diaby, both expensive deals that I imagine we would want tied up ASAP. 

2 hours ago, nick76 said:

Yeah but then it didn’t make sense because that was my first thought because why Robin Hood ie Forest + 20….what does the plus 20 mean then? That’s when I went to the Archer thought.

20 is Brennan Johnsons number at Forest

1 minute ago, Hank Scorpio said:

FFP is going to be a problem in 18 months isn't it

FFP may not even be a thing in 18 months time

44 minutes ago, Made In Aston said:

The last time a manager was backed to get CL was MON, who ended up buying the likes of Marlon Harewood and Steve Sidwell with the money to push for top 4! How times have changed! 

Hard to think of a name more synonymous with the Champions League than Marlon Harewood in all fairness